Edtech Insiders

Week in Edtech 8/6/25: Google's Guided Learning vs OpenAI's Study Mode, GSV Summit x BETT Merger, VR/AI Breakthroughs, Cambiar’s $100K Thrive Grants, and More! Feat. Derwin Sisnett of Cambiar Educatio	Edtech Insiders	102:37
Why Personalized Education Hasn’t Happened and How Outschool Aims to Fix It with Amir Nathoo & Justin Dent	Edtech Insiders	52:31
Why AI Literacy Alone Isn’t Enough and What We Can Do About It with Katy Knight of Siegel Family Endowment & Dr. Allison Scott of Kapor Foundation	Edtech Insiders	55:00
Week in EdTech 7/23/25: Quizlet AI Usage Hits 85%, AI Outsmarts Math Olympiad, Roblox’s Learning Hub, Pearson’s AI/XR Lab, Federal AI Funding Priorities, and More! Feat. Brad Carson of Americans for R	Edtech Insiders	90:21
Exploring Science in Virtual Reality with FotonVR’s Vijay Thakkar & Nisha Panchal	Edtech Insiders	49:45
Week in EdTech 7/16/2025: ChatGPT Agents, AI Companions for Teens, Google’s Gemini Push, Windsurf Talent Wars, Scale AI Layoffs and More! Feat. Writer Matthew Gasda & Marc Graham of Spark Education AI	Edtech Insiders	92:53
Securly’s Vision for Safer, Smarter School Technology with CEO, Tammy Wincup	Edtech Insiders	50:15
Week in Edtech 7/9/2025: OpenAI’s $28M K-12 Push, Meta’s Talent War, Higher Ground Bankruptcy, Teaching Lab + Relay Merger & More! Feat. Josh Reibel, Dreamscape Learn; Dr. Jennifer Cruz, Pendergast El	Edtech Insiders	97:45
Celebrating Teacher Leadership with Edthena's 2025 Impact Award Winners	Edtech Insiders	84:42
Why AI Education Should Start at Age Six and How to Do It Right with Sam Whitaker of Studyfetch	Edtech Insiders	48:07
Week in Edtech 7/2/2025: Google Unveils 50 AI Tools for Schools, $6B in Federal Funding Frozen, ICE Raids Impact Attendance, 60% of Teachers Use AI, and More! Feat. Matt Dalio of Endless Studios & Ann	Edtech Insiders	95:03
AI as an Extra Set of Hands: Redefining Classroom Roles with Matt Miller of OKO Labs	Edtech Insiders	46:11
Week in Edtech 6/25/25: MIT Study on AI Sparks Brain-Rot Fears, Cheating Scandal in Debate Nationals, Teachers Sound the Alarm on LLMs, and More! Feat. Sara DeWitt of PBS KIDS & José Francisco Ochoa O	Edtech Insiders	57:19
Sizzle AI and the Rise of the AI Study Companion with Jerome Pesenti	Edtech Insiders	30:28
Week in Edtech 6/18/25 (Part 1): Professors Battle Cheating, Students Lose Sleep, Meta Buys Scale AI, AI Use Doubles, Gallup & McKinsey Reveal AI Trends, OpenAI Faces Backlash, Handwriting Returns, Pa	Edtech Insiders	64:43
Week in Edtech 6/18/25 (Part 2): Featuring Special Guests Yesi Sevilla of Chalk and Ed Buckley & Marlee Strawn of Scholar Education	Edtech Insiders	59:03
How Renaissance Learning Built a Unified Edtech Ecosystem – With Eric Swanson & Storey Sitwala	Edtech Insiders	52:54
Week in Edtech 6/11/25: OpenAI’s $10B Milestone, Meta’s AI Superteam, Grammarly’s $1B Raise, Ohio State’s AI Mandate, IXL & CodeHS Acquisitions, and More! Feat. Rod Danan of Prentus & Lars-Petter Kjos	Edtech Insiders	77:00
Tuck Advisors on When to Sell, Scale, or Stay the Course in EdTech with Dr. Mike McKenna	Edtech Insiders	25:46
Why Flashy Valuations Fail in EdTech: Juan Zavala of NMVP on Sustainable Growth	Edtech Insiders	57:34
Scratch: Margaret Honey on the Platform That Makes Kids Feel Like Superheroes	Edtech Insiders	37:51
Week in Edtech 5/21/2025: Duolingo CEO Sparks Debate, Google I/O’s AI Tools, OpenAI’s Codex Launch, and More! Feat. Senan Khawaja of Kollegio and Rebecca Taber Staehelin & Connor Diemand-Yauman of Mer	Edtech Insiders	75:48
Handwriting Meets High Tech: David Bleicher on Jotit's Mission to Reinvent Classroom Learning	Edtech Insiders	29:30
Week in Edtech 5/14/25: AI Lawsuits in Classrooms, Utah’s EdTech Surge, Youth Unemployment Rises, Google’s Gemini Targets Students, Corporate AI Layoffs Accelerate, Personalized Tutoring at Scale, and	Edtech Insiders	63:42
The Secret Playbook to EdTech Sales with Starbridge CEO Justin Wenig	Edtech Insiders	50:01
Why AI Alone Won’t Fix Education—MacKenzie Price Explains the Missing Ingredient	Edtech Insiders	51:06
Week in Edtech 5/7/2025: Columbia’s AI Cheating Scandal, Duolingo’s AI Shift, AI Education Mandate, Google’s AI Overviews Cut Clicks 34.5%, Higher Ed Under Fire, and More! Feat. Brian Malkin of Rang,	Edtech Insiders	91:10
Can Teachers Outsmart AI? Mike Yates on AI Poetry Slams and Hackathons at the Reinvention Lab	Edtech Insiders	30:05
Week in Edtech 5/2/2025: Trump’s AI and Workforce Orders, Accreditation Shakeup, ESSER Fallout, Israel’s AI Tutors, Duolingo’s Language Leap, and More! Feat. Anna Iarotska of Robo Wunderkind, Julia Di	Edtech Insiders	79:40
Future Fluent: Betsy Corcoran & Dr. Jeremy Roschelle on Redefining Literacy in the Age of AI	Edtech Insiders	50:28
The Map Makers: Inside the Edtech Insiders' GenAI K-12 Education Market Map with Alex Sarlin, Laurence Holt & Jacob Klein	Edtech Insiders	54:43
Practical AI That Teachers Actually Love with Levi Belnap of Merlyn Mind	Edtech Insiders	47:58
Week in Edtech 4/16/2025: ASU+GSV Recap, GPT-4.1 Launch, Harvard vs. DEI Mandates, Linda McMahon’s Edtech Debut, Claude’s Study Mode, Yuanfudao’s AI Tutor, Brisk Wins GSV Cup, and More! Feat. Collin E	Edtech Insiders	69:19
Inside the Global EdTech Prize: Impact, Scale, and Educator Voices with Vikas Pota of T4 Education	Edtech Insiders	24:45
How 80,000+ Teachers Are Rethinking Instruction with Robert Barnett of Modern Classrooms Project	Edtech Insiders	46:42
Postcards from ASU+GSV 2025: On the Ground with Google, OpenAI & EdTech Changemakers	Edtech Insiders	95:12
Why American Public Education Reverts to the Mean And What We Can Do About It with Tom Vander Ark of Getting Smart	Edtech Insiders	32:08
What’s Next for 2U? CEO Kees Bol Talks Microcredentials, University Partnerships, and AI	Edtech Insiders	38:05
The New Rules of Project Management in the AI Era with Pierre Le Manh, CEO of PMI	Edtech Insiders	50:56
From Arcades to Education: Brent Bushnell of Two Bit Circus on a STEAM-Powered Learning Revolution	Edtech Insiders	52:47

Week in Edtech 8/6/25: Google's Guided Learning vs OpenAI's Study Mode, GSV Summit x BETT Merger, VR/AI Breakthroughs, Cambiar’s $100K Thrive Grants, and More! Feat. Derwin Sisnett of Cambiar Educatio

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Why Personalized Education Hasn’t Happened and How Outschool Aims to Fix It with Amir Nathoo & Justin Dent

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Why AI Literacy Alone Isn’t Enough and What We Can Do About It with Katy Knight of Siegel Family Endowment & Dr. Allison Scott of Kapor Foundation

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Week in EdTech 7/23/25: Quizlet AI Usage Hits 85%, AI Outsmarts Math Olympiad, Roblox’s Learning Hub, Pearson’s AI/XR Lab, Federal AI Funding Priorities, and More! Feat. Brad Carson of Americans for R

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